Helping India take off

If Delhi’s chief minister Sheila Dikshit is found talking about infrastructure most of the time, as opposed to other politicians who spend more time on caste and poverty, NCAER’s just-released Economic Impact Study of the Delhi Airport puts this in perspective. According to the report, which was sponsored by the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), Delhi’s airport operations contributed 13.53% to Delhi’s gross state domestic product (GSDP) and this is projected to rise to 22.2% by 2020—for the country as a whole, the 2009-10 impact is reckoned at 0.45%, going up to 0.7% in 2020.

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